Those born on this date include:

- Abigail Adams, wife of U.S. President John Adams, in 1744
- English novelist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in 1819
- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles in 1852
- French statesman and military leader Charles de Gaulle in 1890
- Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, in 1898
- composers Hoagy Carmichael in 1899 and Benjamin Britten in 1913
- comedian Rodney Dangerfield in 1921
- actors Geraldine Page in 1924, Robert Vaughn in 1932 (age 83) and Tom Conti in 1941 (age 74)
- writer/director and Monty Python alum Terry Gilliam in 1940 (age 75)
- musician Jesse Colin Young in 1941 (age 74)
- Guion S. Bluford Jr., the first African-American astronaut in space, in 1942 (age 73)
- tennis star Billie Jean King in 1943 (age 72)
- guitarist and actor Steven Van Zandt in 1950 (age 65)
- actors Richard Kind in 1956 (age 59), Jamie Lee Curtis in 1958 (age 57), Mariel Hemingway in 1961 (age 54) and Mark Ruffalo in 1967 (age 48)
- tennis player Boris Becker, also in 1967 (age 48)
- and actor Scarlett Johansson in 1984 (age 31).

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